Picture-frame hanger



Aug. 28, 1923.

D. RENCSOK PICTURE FRAME HANGER Filed Oct. so. 1922 gnuenfoz I atknnu a Patented Aug. 28, 1923.

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Application filed October 30, 1922. Serial No. 597,924.

To all whom it may concern.

'Be it known that I, DAVE RENOSOK, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Huntington, county of Cabell, and State of West Virginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Picture-Frame Hangers, of which the following is a full and clear specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple hanger device which may be anchored to the wall and ceiling in such manner as to be adapted to be positioned at any point along the wall and to be anchored in place without the necessity of fastening to the wall hanger-strips or any other special supporting or anchoring devices, as more fully hereinafter set forth.

In the drawing- Fig. l is a vertical sectional view of the device in use; c

Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the device partly broken away. Y

The supporting member of the device consists of a tube 5 curved to arch form having a length about equal to the quadrant of the circle on which the arc is described, so that when this supporting tube is placed in the upper corner of the room, formed by p the' side-wall and the ceiling, one end will abut against the ceiling and the other will abut against the wall, forming a sort of bracket extending from one to the other. The lower end of the tube is provided with sharpened projections 6, which are adapted to be forced into the wall to permit the squared end of the tube to rest squarely against the fiat face of the wall. The upper end of the tube is closed by a fiat plate 7, which is adapted to rest squarely against the ceiling, this fiat plate being provided with a hole 8 up through which is adapted to slide the sharp point of a rod 9, which sharp point is adapted to enter the ceiling when the rod is forcibly projected upwardly.

The sharpened rod 9 is enclosed in a tube and at its lower endis pivotally connected to theinwardly-extending end 10 of a lever 11 pivoted within the tube at 12, the body or main part of the lever being curved to correspond with the curvature of the tube and bein adapted to swing into the tube through a slot in the top-side thereof. The lower end of the lever 11 is provided with a depending hanger-wire 13, which depends through a notch 14 in the lower side of the tube. wall andis attached to a suitable hook la-or other devicfefor engagement with the picture-frame wire, so that, when the picture is hung on said hook theweight thereof will be sustained 'bythe lever 11.

It will be observed'that whe the device 1s placed in the position illustrated and de scribed, lever 11 is swung upwardly to. the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, in which position the arm 10 draws down the spike 9, to bring its pointed end down to a pointrbelow the face of the top-plate 7. The sharpened points 6 are jammed into the wall. When the picture is hung upon the wire'13,the weight thereof will pull down the lever 11 and thus produce a forceful upthrust on the spike, sufiicient to force its sharpened point into the ceiling far enough to anchor the upper end of the supporting tube and thus prevent it shifting laterally.

Thusanchcring the upperend of the sup- 7 porting bracket against lateral movement,

serves to hold the lower end of the brackettube againstthe sidewall, with its sharp ened projections embedded in the wall. In this way,.as will be observed, the weight of thepicture is utilized to anchor the sup porting bracket-tube in position, thereby doing' away with the necessity of driving nails in the wall or fastening hanger-strips along the wall, and whereby also I am enabled to hang apicture at any point along the length of the wall where the ceiling is available as an abutment and anchoring point for the upper end of the support, ltwill be observed that the weight of the picture is brought close to the anchoring point of the lower end of the tube, thus rendering it unnecessary to employ impractically-long entering points 6. It will be understood that the supporting tube may be ornamented for causing the Weight of the picture to thrust said sharpened projection into the ceiling, for the'purpose set forth.

2. A picture-hanging device consisting of a supporting bracket having sharpened projections at its lower end to enter the Wall and a movable sharpened projection at its upper end adapted to enter the ceilin a 7 lever on the bracket adapted to thrust the' movable projection into the ceiling, and means whereby a picture may be hung upon said lever.

3., A tubular curved bracket. having a Wall-entering projection or projections at its lovwer end and a movable anchoring-pin at its upper end, a lever pivotally mounted within the tube and pivotally connected to said anchoring-pin, the arrangement being such that the Weight of the picture applied to the free end of said lever will cause said pin to enter the ceiling. I

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature.

DAVE RENCSOK. 

